Richard E. Webster

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About

All recordings are with Sennheiser ME-67 until 2015, after which a Telinga parabola with ME 62 has been used increasingly.
Since early 2008, almost all were recorded with a Fostex FR-2LE (occasionally a Sony D50), prior to that with various Sony Minidiscs, and before that a Sony TCM-5000.
Very few recordings are in response to playback, and those are labeled RPB on filename and hopefully in remarks.
Many recordings are edited with a graduated high pass filter, intending to remove nothing within the bird's frequency range, or, occasionally, a low pass filter.
Intervals are not shortened without noting that, except for the removal of the occasional very brief glitch, most of which are occasioned by the fact that I am still a birdwatcher first and a recordist second, and I still like to look at the bird).
I try to distinguish different individuals recorded on a particular day ("No 1" etc.), or multiple recordings of the same individual ("1st," "2nd," etc.) (increasingly I combine these into one recording, noting the interval has been altered), but these are not of marked birds and do not represent any type of study.
I really am trying to get better about noting the apparent context of the vocalization.
If you have a serious project, I can get you unedited wav files for most cuts, especially 2008 on. But be patient--I am periodically away for weeks at a time at work or play, and if my non-reply goes on for too long, drop me another polite e-mail to stir me up and I really will try to help.
I live with Rose Ann Rowlett in Portal, Arizona, where we try to make our local birds fat and sassy. I continue to record birds at a faster rate than I get around to uploading them; perhaps I will catch up in my rapidly approaching dotage. I have been emphasizing uploading sets of particular groups that catch my fancy from SW North America.
Richard